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Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-987664)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 270888

Synopsis

The Unity Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-987664 advisory.

 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

 drm/amdgpu/cs: make commands with 0 chunks illegal behaviour.

 Submitting a cs with 0 chunks, causes an oops later, found trying to execute the wrong userspace driver.

 MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=v3d glxinfo

 [172536.665184] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000001d8 [172536.665188] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [172536.665189] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [172536.665191] PGD 6712a0067 P4D 6712a0067 PUD 5af9ff067 PMD 0 [172536.665195] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [172536.665197] CPU: 7 PID: 2769838 Comm: glxinfo Tainted: P O 5.10.81 #1-NixOS [172536.665199] Hardware name: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M./CROSSHAIR V FORMULA-Z, BIOS 2201 03/23/2015 [172536.665272] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_cs_ioctl+0x96/0x1ce0 [amdgpu] [172536.665274] Code: 75 18 00 00 4c 8b b2 88 00 00 00 8b 46 08 48 89 54 24 68 49 89 f7 4c 89 5c 24 60 31 d2 4c 89 74 24 30 85 c0 0f 85 c0 01 00 00 <48> 83 ba d8 01 00 00 00 48 8b b4 24 90 00 00 00 74 16 48 8b 46 10 [172536.665276] RSP: 0018:ffffb47c0e81bbe0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [172536.665277] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [172536.665278] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffb47c0e81be28 RDI: ffffb47c0e81bd68 [172536.665279] RBP: ffff936524080010 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb47c0e81be38 [172536.665281] R10: ffff936524080010 R11: ffff936524080000 R12: ffffb47c0e81bc40 [172536.665282] R13: ffffb47c0e81be28 R14: ffff9367bc410000 R15: ffffb47c0e81be28 [172536.665283] FS: 00007fe35e05d740(0000) GS:ffff936c1edc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [172536.665284] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [172536.665286] CR2: 00000000000001d8 CR3: 0000000532e46000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [172536.665287] Call Trace:
 [172536.665322] ? amdgpu_cs_find_mapping+0x110/0x110 [amdgpu] [172536.665332] drm_ioctl_kernel+0xaa/0xf0 [drm] [172536.665338] drm_ioctl+0x201/0x3b0 [drm] [172536.665369] ? amdgpu_cs_find_mapping+0x110/0x110 [amdgpu] [172536.665372] ? selinux_file_ioctl+0x135/0x230 [172536.665399] amdgpu_drm_ioctl+0x49/0x80 [amdgpu] [172536.665403] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0 [172536.665406] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 [172536.665409] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

 Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2018

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Unity Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected kernel package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?aeef3e99

http://www.nessus.org/u?71b9c619

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49335

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 270888

File Name: unity_linux_UTSA-2025-987664.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 10/21/2025

Updated: 10/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-49335

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/UOS-Server/release, Host/UOS-Server/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-49335